Talking Audiobooks with Sonja Wood

Sonja shares her experiences from inside her vocal booth and the benefits of having a dedicated (and quiet) space for recording audiobooks.

This episode is all about the evolution of the home vocal booth. What works, what doesn’t, and what we have learned along the way.

You can find all the audiobooks narrated by Sonja and published by Oikos Publishing here:

https://oikosfamily.co.za/audiobooks

This episode is all about the evolution of the home vocal booth. What works, what doesn’t, and what we have learned along the way.

From the bedroom, to the closet, to the van…

To be continued in episode 9

You can find all the audiobooks narrated by Sonja and published by Oikos Publishing here:

https://oikosfamily.co.za/audiobooks

This episode is all about the evolution of the home vocal booth. What works, what doesn’t, and what we have learned along the way.

To be continued in episode 8

Sonja talks about the importance of taking care of your voice, and the consequences of not doing so.

Sonja continues to highlight the value of audiobooks in her life, especially as a support for her children with health struggles and physical disabilities.

She also emphasises the continued value of exposing them to excellent literature and stories in their adult lives.

She also touches on the Adventures in Odyssey series of radio dramas that were listened to repeatedly throughout the years.

https://www.adventuresinodyssey.com

Sonja shares how incredibly valuable audiobooks have been to her over the years.

They have been a source of support and encouragement to her daughter who had learning challenges, and a source of inspiration and unity for the whole family.

So much so, that her son, James Wood, is now also an audiobook narrator.

You can find all the audiobooks narrated by Sonja and James here:

https://oikosfamily.co.za/audiobooks

In this episode Sonja shares a bit of her experience on the journey from reading aloud to her children for many years to learning to narrate audiobooks.

The differences, the similarities, and the discoveries she has made along the way.

You can find all the audiobooks narrated by Sonja here:

https://oikosfamily.co.za/audiobooks

Audiobooks provide such and amazing common ground on which relationships can grow.

Sonja shares a few examples of this has been the case in her own life with her siblings, her children, and their relationships with each other.

In this very first episode of the Talking Audiobooks Podcast, Sonja Wood introduces herself and her history with Audiobooks.

She has been listening to audiobooks in one form or another for most of her life, and now she is producing, publishing, and narrating her own audiobooks.

Her son (James Wood) is also an audiobook narrator and you can find a full list of the books narrated by both Sonja and James at the following link:

https://oikosfamily.co.za/audiobooks